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Guys, where should I start looking for it? My ASX is installed on a networked PC. The connection with the main PC must be OK, because I can see the plane moving on the MAP page. But QNH pressure does not get updated anymore in the game.Thanks.

I'm just beginning to use ASX and use it along with Radar Contact. I have noticed situations where the ASX METAR readout for a station did not match the Radar Contact ATIS or ACARS reporting of the Wx. In playing around with ASX I noticed that there is often a difference between the GMT timestamp of the most recent WX file downloaded (and perhaps explicitly saved) and the GMT timestamp associated with a particular station. As an example, I started ASX up while at KSFO, the downloaded/saved Wx file timestamp was 1356Z. Yet the information reported in the REPORT and WX CONFIG pages was 1256Z. Note that I clicked on "CURRENT" to get the most recent METAR report and yet …

Hi Jim. I hv Activesky V6.5 & never took the time to read instructions and hv a real mess on my hands,errors,etc.Cannot even get it to work now.Can you tell me how to go about completeletly removing all items related to the program. I hv on various occasions removed the program but there's themes I cannot delete from FS9 & also items in modules.Help.Plse.Regards,Tim:-(

Hello active sky community,I'm a newbie and I'm just discovering the advantages of Active Sky 6.5. I wonder, if somebody has ever cared to develop an additional set of weather themes (as AST-files), which I could transfer to the template folder so they would show in the WX-configurator.Of course it's a thrill trying to fly in a hurricane, but to have some more elaborated weather themes at hand would be great.Thanks in advance for your help.Glocke from Germany

So I was flying around today for about 20 min with no problems. Suddenly I received a message saying XEngine had a fatal error and needs to close. I have sp3 installed. I have norton antivirus, and it was running. I don't believe I have ever had this error before. Gigabyte 965P DS3 - Rev 2.0 Motherboard Chipset Driver 8.3.1.1011 Bios Version F13Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 - 1.86 Ghz(2) 1 Gb PNY Dual Channel DDR3 - 633 RAMXFX Geforce 8800 GTS - 320 MB Nvidia Driver 175.19Samsung 21

Hello,I'm trying to run Active Sky X on a networked computer and all seems to be set up correctly. The Simconnect is connecting correctly (according to the AITraffic util). When I launck ASX i get the following message:"Simconnect SP1 managed version was not found to be correctly installed on this system..."The version installed is the Client version v10.0.61259.0 that comes with the latest SDK in Accelaration DVD. Can you please help me? What should I do?RegardsAbrupto

I just got a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium. My computer is high end, with a Nvidia GeForce 8800 video card. When running Active Sky, I keep getting an error message that says "Error accessing internal components (Unencrypt Step 4 -." and it tells me to run the repair option in the setup.exe process to fix this. I have done this several times, and keep getting the same thing. Any way to fix this?

hello!first i want to thank u for this great utility!but i think i found a little bug:it's happening when i try to get a average wind for my flight and do following steps:* all ok, refresh done and QNH ok* now i push the button "New Route" and import a former save route by FSBuild and after processing i got my needed information of the averige wind.* i close the window and return to the running FS9* now the QNH has changed to the one of the destination airport !!!the only way to get the right QNH bach is to close AS and reload the weather (former saved).a) is this a bug or is this the result of a wrong handling by me?:( how can i avoid this 'QNH-jump to DEST?

Just looked at the time stamp for AS6:KORD 280651Z 00000KT 10SM FEW250 23/16 A2982 RMK AO2 SLP092 T02280156Notice the time stamp....over 60 hours old...server issues?EDIT: checked the option to force the secondary server and got the correct wx...must just be the primary server.

Hello Gang!The picture speaks for itself!Any help is appreciated!Sincerely,Dennis D. Mullerthttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/191062.jpg

Hello Gang!I am currently running FSX with ASX and the FEX high definition clouds. For some reason, every time I launch FSX there is some sort of a haze that automatically kicks in that makes the cluds in the distance look as my attached picture. Once I climb above this haze sheet, everything looks marvelous. Anyone has an idea how to mitigate this or how to get the cluds to look better?Thanks for your help! Sincerely,Dennis D. Mullerthttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/191033.jpg

Hi,After reinstalling everything the other night, I tried to get my simconnect working again. I must be missing some small entry somewhere. After reading the forum and following everything, double checking everything, I get this error coming up in ASX "Problem writing weather values: The network path was not found.(Error) Source = "I've run the traffic test and it says I'm connected to FSX. ASX seems to work ok up until the point where it tries writing the data to FSX.I've attatched my Xengine Log file. Also, here is what I have my Simconnect file setup like, which resides in My Documents on the Client machine running ASX. The address is from the FSX machine:[simConnect]P…

A suggestion for any future updates to ASv6.When the weather is raining, cloudy and sun visbility is zero,have FS9 automatically turn off AC & ground shadows. May be impossible to do, but I thought I'd ask anyway.ThanksChris

I am thinking about buying X Graphics and have some questions.1. How does it display towering cumulus both with and without the anvil top?2. What is the frame rate hit?3. Considering the heart ache that ASX has caused with the winds aloft, why would I want to buy X Graphics?Bill

I'm having some issues with cloud placement using ASX. I've been looking through the forum, and I have found somewhat similar issues elsewhere.here's the problem:The weather at the airport, in real life, is clear blue sky. But when I go to that airport in FSX, there are clouds, often cumulus clouds that are far too low to the surface. Basically, the weather data from ASX isn't matching the sim. Another example: last night, I was flying into Catalina Island (FSX) and the weather report said No Clouds under 12,000 feet. Well, I could see out in front of the plane MANY clouds at about 2600 feet. Completely wrong. I see this over and over. Clear skies outside my window----but…

I've read the manual but remain confused. Should I take very category individually, set it to Weather-Influenced, and then send it to FS? Or, should I make the selection for each category and then click "send to FS" to send all categories at the same time? And, since I'm running AS6.5 and ASG on my notebook computer, networked to my desktop where FS9 resides, how do the graphics change due to weather infuence? From what I read in the manual, changes are made before or when FS9 loads, so how does this work if AS6.5 gathers the wx after FS9 is running? 'Hope this isn't too confusing of a question, but maybe you'll get the gist of it. I'm sorry I don't understand, but …

I just reinstalled FSX to a new drive on my computer and was wondering if there was a way to edit ASX & XGraphics so they can find the new location or do they have to be reinstalled? ASX & XGraphics reside on my "C" Drive and FSX is now on "D".

I just wanted to pass along that after recently rebuilding my FSX-server rig and some minor tweaks to my FSX-client rig (hosting ASX & XGrpahics), that I've never had such a good looking cloud and sky environment in FSX, period (currenlty using 1159-beta). Now, serveral thoughts come to mind as to what may have truely been the point of improvment.1) Upgraded FSX-server OS from WinXP 32-bit to WinXPx64 64-bit. Better use of a quad-core?2) Followed NickN tweaks to clean the FSX-server to a pristine state after a fresh build. More CPU cycles mean stable sky & clouds. Link in sig below.3) My best guess, since I'm in a simconnect network environment, is the fact th…

I seem to be getting an error when ASX attempts to write out the weather values to FSX. I'm running it on a networked computer and all seems to be set up correctly. The Simconnect is connecting correctly (according to the AITraffic util) and I get the message in FSX stating that ASX is connected. The ASX log file is showing Unable to write to MyUserNameApplicationDataasx-wx-info.dat. Access Denied Source =and nothing I can see after the = sign. I'm running XP SP2 on the networked computer hosting ASX and Vista on the FSX computer. UsersMyUserNameApplicationData is one of those protected folders I cannot even view in Windows Explorer. Because of this, I get no weat…

Hi Folks,I've been using Active Sky since v4 and it's the one addon I never fly without. My question regards the manner in which weather is set when importing a flight plan from FS. After the plan is processed, the window pops up with the weather for the flight. The arrival airport seems to show the current weather and not the anticipated conditions at my arrival time. Does AS have the ability to show and set the arrival weather based on the TAF for my arrival time? In the case of offline, saved weather; does AS look to the archived weather data for my arrival time as opposed to relying only on the current hour METAR/TAF? Thanks for the help.Regards,Jeff

Gday all i am having trouble getting active sky to produce the proper weather on my fsx machine from a client machine. It all connects fine and i can see my plane and all on the map however it doesnt pass the metar to the simulator there fore i have AI traffic taking of and landing from different runways to what there supposed to.In the log i get this message Problem writing weather values: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.(Error) Source = and i cant for the life of me pinpoint how to fix the problem.Shane

I am planning on doing a flight from RJTT (Tokyo Japan) to RJBE (Kobe Japan).All waypoints for the flight (Made with FSB) are fine in the AS6 except RJBE. This is the navlog in AS6:---------------------------------------------------------------------RJTT 9.2 136 140 263 32 -29.0 300 318 1D030D 7.7 271 270 263 23 -28.4 300 277 1D299G 4.1 300 296 263 32 -29.0 300 271 1CANAL 10.9 299 296 263 32 -29.0 300 271 2D299V 6.0 298 294 261 32 -28.5 300 271 1DF 7.3 268 267 261 32 -28.5 300 268 1D268G 114.5 268 267 261 32 -28.5 300 268 25KCC 55.3 261 260 247 22 -27.8 300 278 11CUE 7548.3 242 242 240 22 -27.7 300 278 1628RJBE ----- ----- 7763.2 1671m 2…

Hello, I've been happily using AS from many months but I would like to understand the big picture - how the weather data is passed between my various programs. I'm using FS9, get my flight plan from FSBuild, fly online (VATSIM) with SB3, and have a registered copy of FSUIPC. I have AS running on a networked PC, connected through WideClient, but I don't think that's relevant to my questions. Here goes...FS9* When AS starts, it creates a snapshot weather file. How does FS9 know that it should use the weather data in that file and not its own weather data?* Can I switch over from AS weather to native FS9 weather using the settings in World > Weather... (such as RW weather…

Hi all,i've unchecked the surface wind but i still have 8 knts an all airports. I wrong something? Thanx

Hi all,There were some additional problems with recent bad data from a handful of stations, causing occasional termination of XEngine during download/population.We've made several changes in the server code over the past few days to handle this, but some additional unexpected data was encountered over the past 24-48 hours. We have since adjusted the server again with a more comprehensive solution and such problems should be a thing of the past.In addition we've updated the client processes to recover much more gracefully in the event anything unexpected is handed down from the server. This redundant fix will be available in the first update for ASX.If any further relate…